While reddit was down...
Posted Apr 8, 2011, 1:45 PM UTC
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I went to digg, but it was all stuff that I saw on reddit yesterday. I thought that was just a joke ಠ_ಠ
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We should go to Digg tomorrow so we can see what we missed during the outage
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We should go to Digg tomorrow so we can see what we missed during the outage
This logic is making blood leak from my thinker and out my hear holes.
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No, tommorow there'll just be a six hour gap in submissions to digg for no reason.
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I wish I could upvote this so many times.
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Funny, half the time I'm on Reddit I feel like its the stuff I saw on HN yesterday (well minus the memes, and cats)
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If you want to see what you miss on reddit.. go to DIGG
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I had a similar but different experience this morning.
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It is no joke my friend. Digg is notorious for reposts.
Which is why after they all migrated here, our reposts have gotten a million times worse. Digg owns this site now.
We were once the small mom & pop restaurant, and they were like the giant fast food corporation who bulldozed us over and turned us into a clone corporate fast food chain restaraunt.
Another good is metaphor is the movie Dodgeball. We were just the Average Joe of websites. Yeah, our place wasn't all fancy, and maybe we had some weirdos, but this place was unique, and always felt nice and homey. New links every single day, just full of uniqueness.
Digg is Globogym. Overcrowded, corporate stained, filled with power users, and no one is original (see pedobear and admiral ackbar ASCII comments in every single digg thread).
Think of the Digg Invasion like the final dodgeball fight with Globogym....except in this story, Globogym wins. Reddit loses.
This place is now filled with hundreds of thousands of users we didn't have 6 months ago, filled with heaps of unoriginal content, reposts, power users, and old ass 4chan memes. And to add on top of that, the site goes down every. single. day.
It's a sad story, I know. But there's no going back :(
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i came to reddit a couple months before digg went to shit (on a different account name) and honestly i haven't seen much of a change. Now if i start seeing 5 different top 10 lists on reddit, then ill know digg owns this site.
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What I can't understand, is how this site is always short of cash, and is constantly crapping out. How can they NOT monetize this? It's got so many visitors, and quite a few of them realize the importance of disabling AdBlock. I don't mind seeing their ads, but at the same time they waste the opportunity by showing me a picture of a kitten as a "thank you." Don't thank me- advertise to me, make money, and don't crap out!
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Wait, you see cats instead of ads? I thought it was a personal 'thank-you'. so betrayed.
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Upvote for you. They should also offer a bit more for donations than what is currently in place. I think the mold was a bit of a gambit there, actually. I spent $30 to mold people O_o
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You didn't mold people, you molded me. Twelve times. Nightmare.
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You deserve it for making I_RAPE_CATS and exploiting reddit's good will.
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erode is I_RAPE_CATS??? HEY! Hey everyone, get your torches!
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They've already said they are not short on money. The problem is Amazon not living up to their promises. Look at it like this.. we dominated AMAZON.
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But why the Reddit Gold, then? Is this no longer a problem then?
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There are different bottle necks involved. Now that they've taken care of the cash flow problem their have an engineering problem.
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I keep thinking that. I unblock Reddit on ad block and just see pictures of a fucking burger. Put a fucking MacDonalds up there and I'll click the link and give you money you nob ends. Maybe the fucking site might stay up for more than ten minutes at a time.
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Banner ads don't pay enough for a site this size. In order to monetize it to be profitable, the ads would have to be bigger, louder, flashier, and more intrusive. That's what advertisers pay for. A little square ad off to the side where no one will click on it pays so little that the amount almost rounds down to zero. And that value goes down with each ad a viewer looks at - that is, if you click on 500 links on Reddit, the last 450 or so have virtually no value to the advertiser. They want a new set of eyeballs to advertise to.
This is why you can't stick ads on a message board and hope to make even a tenth of your server costs. It's tons of pages per user, and the users insist on unobtrusive ads. Reddit will never make money until they turn it into the kind of place you don't want to visit any more.
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|the kind of place you don't want to visit any more.
like digg?
Also i wouldnt mind if there were some more ads(unless they are popups) on the page,if that helps reddit to make money to maintain servers I think we all should acknowledge and not make a fuss about it.
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I disagree- hasn't Google financed its empire on smart, relevant, non-obtrusive ads?
And still, why waste advertising space thanking me for turning AdBlock off? If I want pictures of kittens, I'll subscribe to r/kittens (granted, not a very popular subreddit...)
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Hmm. How would you feel about bots scraping your comments for the purpose of targeting ads at you?
I could think of a few pros and cons.
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I don't really mind too much. I don't mind targetted advertising, especially if it's stuff that is relevant to me, and involves my interests. There's also not many things that links "levitron" to my IRL person, so there's that natural "firewall" (if you will) that protects that part of my privacy. Nothing's really for free, online, it's all a transaction.
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I used to be a Digger, found Reddit... Now when Reddit is down, I stare at the wall and press F5 about once every half hour.
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still better than digg..
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You did what?
*points to door
Get.Out.
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But I didn't enjoy it! I hated it!
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I went once....it made me feel dirty.
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It's been years since the last time i saw digg, they made some adjustments (like removing that page before every link), but it's still crap.
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This sounds like a teenager's explanation when the parents find your pot pipe.
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Digg is never an option. Ever.
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DIGG
Go ahead. Try it. If you like it, you deserve it.
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ಠ_ಠ Even when Reddit is down you will not find me going to Digg.
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But, But! I was desperate! I hated it and had to gtfo of there before you can say "Profit!" if it makes it any better.
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excuses excuses...
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I almost worked, it was horrible.
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Reddit was down?
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StumbleUpon. Why not SU?
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I went to Digg and it was hopeless. I ended up curled up crying.
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Shed no tears for Digg
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I CAN shed tears for my eyes though. My poor helpless eyes...
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Oh yeah, digg. Forgot about that thing. Used to spend a lot of time there. Then went to reddit and realized that digg is like a shitty ripoff. Bye digg!
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I went to Fark instead.
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I actually kind of like digg since it's not bogged down with so much bullshit reddit patriotism. Remember how people used to praise reddit for having actual news on the front page while Digg was full of bullshit? Have you looked at Reddit's front page lately?
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SRSLY, guys, way to not even try anymore. You might as well just make a post that says "HERRDERR DAE think Digg sucks? LOLOLOLOL"
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I did the EXACT FUCKING THING!
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good to know i wasn't the only one
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i generally go to fark when reddit is down
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I looked around Fark.com and left disappointed that Reddit was still down. I am at work, what am I supposed to do, Work? I think not!
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Sometimes, when I am out strolling the internet, I will walk by the old place. Once in awhile I will stop to put my hand on the wall. I close my eyes as I put my head down. I feel the new paint on my fingers, new and smooth. I know that behind the corporate ads and beneath the paint stands a rough foundation built on and for technology. I remember looking at a ceiling that seemed so far away. I can still hear my footsteps echoing while I walked and admired the neatly organized cables, now hidden behind cheap drywall. When I wake from my memory I am still looking down. My shoe is firmly planted in a huge pile of shit.
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Wow, this is exactly how I feel about reddit. But I will stay here until I find something better.
Nice try, Gawker
I'm beginning to prefer tumblr, myself.
Oh while were stating preferences for unsimilar things - I'm beginning to prefer coffee.
Hah, on a related note I recently purchased this shirt from here.
Then you'll love stolen content, try ebaumsworld
I don't prefer tumblr for the funny/interesting/"insightful" content that sites like reddit are more focused around, but for the community.